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3 days ago · In the documentary The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time, Lee Hays explained (13:30): …Truman and Eisenhower were in office and some sad things were happening in this land and in the world. The progressive movement came to a critical crossroads, if it wasn’t actually stopped by the Wallace defeat in ’48.
4 days ago · Author Jesse Jarnow uses his skill for weaving together seemingly disparate strands of counterculture history to craft an exciting rethink of the Weavers' role in American popular music and to examine the strong link shared between art and activism.
4 days ago · Seeger left the group in 1958, and it disbanded in 1963. (The Weavers gave two reunion concerts in 1980, and a motion picture documentary about the group, Wasn’t That a Time!, was released in 1982.)
2 days ago · Eli was later discovered on a fishing trip with his friends - one of whom wasn't Amish and had a cell phone. Investigators took Eli in for questioning, where he quickly denied any involvement in his wife's murder. He told police that he had last seen his wife at 3 am right before his fishing trip and his friend corroborated his story.
1 day ago · This outing recorded January 9 and 10 1966 at Vanguard's 214 West 23rd Street New York City studio, is James's first album release though he'd recorded an earlier one for John Fahey's Takoma Records that wasn't issued until much later due to contractual disputes. Fahey and two others "discovered" him in a Mississippi hospital.
3 days ago · The Weavers' performing career was abruptly derailed in 1953, at the peak of their popularity, when blacklisting prompted radio stations to refuse to play their records and all their bookings were canceled.
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4 days ago · Tlingit weaver Donedin Jackson talks excitedly as she walks the steep path towards the Juneau-Douglas City Museum in “Alaska,” where one of her weavings is on display. The child-sized Yéil Koowú Ravenstail robe created by Jackson — with bright shades of yellow and blue contrasting with black and white — is being shown alongside more than 20 other weavings as part of the “Yéil ...
